Senior Golang Engineer

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior Golang Engineer to join a high-performing engineering team responsible for designing, building, and evolving modern, cloud-native platforms.

Inside IR35 - 3 days a week in Sheffield office.

This is a hands-on engineering role requiring deep expertise in Go (Golang) and modern backend engineering practices. You will be responsible for developing high-performance APIs, distributed systems, and event-driven microservices while helping shape technical architecture across a scalable, Azure-hosted environment.

Working alongside architects, product teams, and fellow engineers, you will build resilient, secure, and highly available services capable of supporting complex enterprise workloads.

Key Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services using Go (Golang).

Build scalable RESTful APIs and event-driven microservices.

Design and implement cloud-native solutions within Microsoft Azure.

Develop resilient distributed systems capable of handling high-throughput workloads.

Contribute to architecture decisions across a polyglot technology landscape, selecting the most appropriate technologies for individual workloads.

Collaborate with frontend engineers to deliver full-stack solutions using React where required.

Support the modernisation of legacy applications and migration towards cloud-native architectures.

Build and optimise event-driven solutions using messaging and streaming technologies.

Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code following engineering best practices.

Participate in code reviews, technical design sessions, and architectural discussions.

Drive improvements in performance, scalability, observability, and reliability.

Work within Agile delivery teams, contributing to continuous improvement and DevOps practices.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong commercial experience developing backend applications using Go (Golang).
• Excellent understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Experience building scalable APIs and high-throughput backend platforms.
• Strong Microsoft Azure experience, including cloud-native application design.
• Experience with containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of event-driven architecture and messaging platforms.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps engineering practices.
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns, and clean architecture.
• Experience working within Agile software delivery teams.

Desirable Skills

• Experience with C# /.NET in enterprise environments.
• Frontend development experience using React.
• Experience with Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, Event Grid, or Event Hubs.
• Exposure to Kafka or other messaging technologies.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or Bicep).
• Experience with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Azure Monitor.
• Exposure to blockchain or Web3 development, particularly Solana.
• Experience working across polyglot engineering environments.

Personal Attributes

• Passionate about building high-quality software.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Collaborative with excellent communication abilities.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced Agile environments.
• Proactive with a continuous learning mindset.
• Able to balance technical excellence with pragmatic delivery.

Technology Stack

Go (Golang)

Microsoft Azure

C# /.NET

React

Docker

Kubernetes

REST APIs

Event-Driven Architecture

Microservices

CI/CD

Git

Azure DevOps

Service Bus / Event Grid / Event Hubs

SQL / NoSQL Databases

Solana (desirable)

This role is ideal for a senior engineer who enjoys solving complex backend engineering challenges, building scalable cloud-native platforms, and working across modern distributed architectures while contributing to the evolution of enterprise technology.